by Helen Ivory | Feb 16, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Cemetery A pity the door is locked. You have to climb in over the fence, which is low in places. A large cemetery, matzevot crushed by falling trees – Tripadvisor review I step through missing bricks. Green graves cluster on a rise under a...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 15, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Woof Woof She came growling at me like a wolf, muttering moonlight out of her throat and blood is the future in my skin. No more good girl. She kept moving in her frightened threats, unstable pain swallowed in an unspeakable way. Like me with my...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Uncertainty Principle But though she kissed me as a child would do, She clung on a little longer than she needed to. Jake Thackray “The Kiss” Hold a rule beside her measured look. Precisely fix the time it took to meet and break away....
by Helen Ivory | Feb 13, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
By Nectan’s Well being unnatural he fixes his sight past the fields of bere and oat and the woods of birch, his goat-eyes watch two worlds at once he knows to boil henbane with bitter vetch so he can see what exiled angels scrawl on the bark of...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 12, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Unbound It was so quiet she could hear her hair grow, heartbeat stretch across measures, nails twist into mobius strips. She unlatched the window so the hair had somewhere to go, tumbling and snarling like water released in spring. He came every day –...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 11, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Making a new picture from another picture I cut a bright patch free sunlit ochre that I loved placed it high up in this picture ditched the grim grounding and from another picture salvaged the russet which had warmed me excised the violet shades...
